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Linux, Open Source, PhotographyFri, 09 Dec 2016 18:00:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Kevinhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30899
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:28:14 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30899Has no one heard of Krita ! for Linux windows and mac it’s Free !https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/
lots of videoshttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=krita&t=canonical&ia=videos
]]>By: Augustin Riedingerhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30856
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:33:08 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30856I’m surprised nobody mentions backup of files which is critical for serious/professional photographers. Would you mind explaining how you tackle the issue?
Cheers
]]>By: Valhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30794
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:48:25 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30794I love Linux too but why are you so angry? Chill out, people should enjoy what they are doing.
]]>By: Dyachenko Evgenhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30790
Sat, 06 Aug 2016 08:49:33 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30790This tool, that tool…. Linux bad? Linux good….. Mac is for Pro, Win is for Pro…. Hell! People! Real photographer can take ANY camera in his hands and use ANY platform or program to make the GREAT shots!!! “oh! This editor cannot make same as that one…”. It’s not because it’s bad!!!! It’s because photographer is idiot! He cannot read manual and make it! The real difference btwn Photoshop and GIMP is that in Adobe people work for money and so they produce it more quickly, than in GIMP where mostly they do it for fun. What You cannot do in GIMP? Oh, yes! You cannot push one button, so the Pro script will do it for You, You have to do it manuały. Oh! If You wanna do it manuały – do it for free, if wanna push the button and wait some time for processing it automatically – pay for program! Here is all the difference of commercial and opensource! Don’t say, that opensource is less functional! I wrote 30 scripts in GIMP that make my pictures much better level than Photoshop production. For the money I save, I bought two flashes, octo, and softbox. Don’t want to screw up with scripts? Pay to people who wrote this plugins for You (Photoshop)”
]]>By: Valhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30788
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:21:40 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30788I am a new Linux fan (using Linux Mint) and a serious enough photographer. My main photo editing workflow is based on Capture One Pro 9 (Mac version). So far, I have not found a RAW convertor that would produce results even close to Capture One. Apple Aperture 3 is nothing in comparison to Capture One. Corel Aftershot Pro 3 cannot compare. Sorry, I wish I had a Linux-based platform that would allow me to produce the same results as Capture One Pro. Even rather expensive DxO Optic Pro cannot achieve the quality of raw conversion that Capture One Pro provides. I wish Capture One pro could be run via Wine. It would be worth every penny.
]]>By: Danny W Burdickhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30683
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 04:38:02 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30683The issue: there is no high-end raw-converter/editor for Linux…
Aftershot Pro is the fastest thing you will ever see for batch conversion from raw to jpg
And the end product is better quality than digikam’s plugin, geeqie, or rawtherapee…
]]>By: Logicshttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30436
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:32:13 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30436Professional Photographer since 1982, Using Linux solely since 2001. Used to use Jasc’s PaintShop Pro (or PSP as it was affectionately called) before moving to The GIMP. Now I mostly use DigiKam for organizing and Darktable for everything else.

Yes, one can use local masks/selects in Darktable contrary to what Richard suggested but I rarely ever have to do so. As Omar Spence Photography said, you do it right in camera, you have not much to do in PP.

Other tools I use include The GIMP and RawTherapee, although not so much. They are both excellent tools. The GIMP, I only use for special needs after completeing most of the PP on my RAW file (non-destructively) then export a JPEG or PNG to muddle with a few tiny things in The GIMP since it is 8-bit integer processing. All my other tools are 16+ bit floating point processing and that is more than some of the “Pro” products available in Windows/Mac.

Regarding workflow for non-Linux users who insist on “industry standard” tools, I have never had an issue working with any of them since I can export my work to any format they use and I can import any format they use. Besides, in Hollywood, most of the big studios do not use “industry standard” tools because most of the big studios use tools developed by ILM on Linux and Linux has the best tools for those files. Over 10,000 Professional photographers and over 1,000,000 users of Linux had petitioned Adobe to make a Linux version of CS (which is a cloud-based, subscription model, SaaS tool) and Adobe refused. We do not mind because what we have more than suffice and out performs Adobe products in many respects.

Bear in mind that “Linux software” is not synonymous with “Open Source” or “free”. Many Linux products, including many provided by Canonical (Ubuntu), Novel (SuSE), RedHat (Fedora), Oracle (Java, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, etc,), et al, are neither open source nor free.

Recently I worked at a large Augmented Reality firm and they are on Linux for SW product development and some creatives including 3D, Macs for some creatives, and Windows for accounting and some 3D work. Yes, they use Solid Works for some of their 3D designs for HW product development and they use the Linux version and the Windows version which are both practically the same thing. Can’t say much more since I am under an NDA.

Linux has been a serious OS for serious professionals in many fields for many years, including music, photography, video and 3D imagery & film and will continue to be so for a long time. Trust me, George Lucas and others like him are no fools. Neither are expert, seasoned, professional photographers like me.

]]>By: Grixhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30356
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 09:45:18 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30356I use also Lightzone which is very good if you need masks to edit your pictures. I think there are several tools in linux that do professional work out there. the only aspect that is very bad in linux is printing, Big trademarks do not support it in fact and open source drivers don’t give the options privative drivers for win do. So this is important because I use apps that are also developed in paralel for both plattforms in case I need specific printing issues.
]]>By: mrashkovskyhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30248
Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:21:06 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30248Thanks, this is a sound rebuttal and provides good insight into someone that takes linux and photography seriously. It is encouraging to read that you use these tools regularly and are happy with them.
]]>By: Simon Whiteleyhttps://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/#comment-30217
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:33:52 +0000http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-30217Quite right!
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